When This World Comes to an End
By Kate Cayley
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Cayley draws on her experience as a playwright to create vividly engaging voices and characters ranging from the famous to the infamous to the all-but-anonymous. With exquisite pacing and striking imagery she draws us into the gaps in history, invites us to survey its wonders, both real and imaginary.
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When This World Comes to an End - Kate Cayley
When This World Comes to an End
When This World Comes to an End
KATE CAYLEY
BRICK BOOKS
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Cayley, Kate
When this world comes to an end. / Kate Cayley
Poems.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-771314-18-3
I. Title.
PS8605.A945W44 2013 C811'6 C2013-900059-3
copyright © Kate Cayley, 2013
We acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing program.
The author photo was taken by Carmen Farrell.
The print edition of the book is set in Minion Pro, designed by Robert Slimbach and released in 1990 by Adobe Systems.
The cover image is Diving horse, 1908
from the William James collection, City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 191.
Print design and layout by Cheryl Dipede.
Printed and bound by Sunville Printco Inc.
Brick Books
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London, Ontario N6K 4G6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Poems that journey through a tapestry of myths, archetypes and fables; of histories invented and revisited.
Kate Cayley’s is a mind both studious and curious, deeply attuned to the question what if?
What if Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson met in the afterlife? What if a respected physician suddenly shrank to the size of a pea? What if the blind twins in a Victorian photograph could speak to us? What if we found another Earth orbiting another sun?
Cayley draws on her experience as a playwright to create vividly engaging voices and characters ranging from the famous to the infamous to the all-but-anonymous. With exquisite pacing and striking imagery she draws us into the gaps in history, invites us to survey its wonders, both real and imaginary.
For Dan DeMatteis
There is a light in the darkness and the darkness has never quenched it
CONTENTS
BOOK OF DAYS
Zola, Bravest of Leonardo’s Apprentices, Leaps from the Tower of San Francesco Wearing His Master’s Wings
Persephone
The Later Auden
William Kemmler Remembering his Wife
Reading Gwendolyn MacEwen’s T. E. Lawrence poems
Charles Dodgson Looking at Alice Liddell
The Later Life of Judas Iscariot
Simone Weil
Walking
Neanderthal Man, Theory and Practice
Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson Meet in the Afterlife
A Journey by Train
CURIO: TWELVE PHOTOGRAPHS
Daguerre Photographs Paris, 1838
A Wedding